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Forst, Rainer - RECON - 2011

This paper argues against three traditional dogmas in political theory: the thesis of the (conceptual and practical) incompatibility between democracy and justice; the idea that a context of justice only exists within the confines of a state; and the view that political democracy presupposes a...

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A done deal? The EU’s legitimacy conundrum revisited

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2007

In this paper we suggest a research agenda beyond the legitimation strategies of the CIDEL project (i.e. legitimation through outcomes, values and rights). The European Union has developed beyond that of international organisation and derivative democratic construct. But the step from negative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040521

Europe in Transformation: How to Reconstitute Democracy?

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2007

Europeanisation and globalisation are frequently held to undermine national democracy. What are then the prospects for democracy in the multi-level constellation that makes up the contemporary European political order? The European debate has taken the question of democracy beyond the nation...

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On Political Representation: Myths and Challenges

Johannes Pollak, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Emmanuel … - RECON - 2009

In this paper we critically reassess the standard account of political representation, in order to question the mythical foundation of its premises and explain why it can no longer serve as an adequate explanatory framework in the modern political context. We argue that representation was not...

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Democratizing the transnational polity: The European Union and the presuppositions of democracy

Bohman, James - RECON - 2007

institutions, this paper offers a theory of democratization for transnational polities. Democratizing a polity such as the European … that realize freedom as nondomination. In light of these conditions, the republican dimension of democratization can be … made explicit in a conception of a democratic minimum, in which democratization depends upon the effective capacity of …

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Reconstituting democratic taxation in Europe: The conceptual framework

Menéndez, Agustín José - RECON - 2008

This paper explores how and to what extent it is possible to contribute to the democratisation of the European political order by means of modifying the ways in which taxes are deliberated upon, decided and collected in the old continent. In the first part, the author elucidates the particular...

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Women's rights in Turkey as gauge of its European vocation: The impact of ‘EU-niversal values’

Muftuler-Bac, Meltem; Onar, Nora Fisher - RECON - 2010

It is often assumed that Turkey’s chance of accession to the EU would be enhanced were the European project to move in an inclusive, cosmopolitan direction. However, the inclusion of women’s rights and post-sexual revolution sexuality in the battery of ‘EU-niversal’ values could still...

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European transformation: A pragmatist approach

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2010

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Bringing European democracy back in – Or how to read the German Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling

Eriksen, Erik O.; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2010

This article critically examines the democratic theory that informs the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to analyse the ruling we establish three models of what...

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Representation through Deliberation: The European Case

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2011

This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...

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